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Juvenile crime and reformation, including stigmata of degeneration : being a hearing on the bill (H.R. 16733) to establish a laboratory for the study of the criminal, pauper, and defective classes
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- by Arthur MacDonald
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- English
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- Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1908
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- 339 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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- ocm05149419, ocm05149419
- At head of title: Committee on the Judiciary. House of Representatives. Sixtieth Congress.
- Hearing March 6, 1908, before a subcommittee, John A. Sterling, Chairman.
- "Recent literature on child crime, suicide, and stigmata of degeneration": pages 316-327.
- Summary of indorsements [sic] of work incorporated in bill -- Practical results -- Come conclusions of criminology -- Remedy -- Morality chief element in education -- Inmates of institutions should be studied thoroughly -- The same training for normal and abnormal -- Palliative measures not sufficient -- About three-fourths are reformed -- Hopeless cases very few -- Actual conditions of weakling classes -- Study of causes first, then remedy -- the study of criminals should begin with the young -- The child inclined toward evil -- Younger criminals in court. Study of juvenile criminals: some physical defects ; Decay of family life and increase of child crime ; Young criminals and heredity ; Young murders by nature ; Little girl assassins ; Cases of girl incendiaries ; Reform of juvenile criminals ; Reform of wayward youth ; Unruly, vagabond, and criminal children ; A reformatory as a laboratory ; Statistics of child suicide ; Post-mortems of suicides ; Statistics of juvenile crime ; Reformatory statistics in the United States ; Statistics of young criminals in the United States ; Statistics of prisoners in the United States ; Psychophysical and anthropometrical instruments of precision ; A study of Emile Zola as illustrating method ; More pleasure than pain the world ; A sadistic murder ; Stigmata of degeneration ; anarchism ; Questionnaire ; Recent literature on child crime, suicide, and on stigmata of degeneration ; Resolution adopted by the Sixth International Congress of Criminal Anthropology or Europe as to the treatment of juvenile crime -- Pathosocial, educational, and psychophysical works by author -- Index